A longtime In-N-Out Burger employee found dead in the restaurant’s parking lot in La Mirada did not die from gunshots as authorities originally believed, the Los Angeles County Coroner said Wednesday. Josefina Alcocer, 49, died from multiple blunt force injuries Friday morning, a coroner’s official...

The sheer joy of musical performance dances through “Billy Elliot the Musical” at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. Although this surefire production of Elton John and Lee Hall’s Tony-winning adaptation of the Stephen Daldry film doesn’t entirely disguise certain pro-forma aspects in the...

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The latest wave of sandwich shops (Hero Shop, Superba Food + Bread, Trencher) and modern Vietnamese cafes (East Borough, Phorage) in Los Angeles have generated tantalizing new spins on banh mi, the beloved Vietnamese sandwich that is the culinary result of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. ...

Monosodium glutamate: Love it or hate it? Some people are convinced it’s toxic, though there isn't much science behind that claim. Others compare it with table salt. Regardless of which camp you fall into, it’s no secret that MSG is used heavily in restaurants – especially in traditional Chinese...

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There were some who thought La Mirada's basketball victory over Artesia in January of 2007 was an upset. After all, Artesia, led by James Harden and Renardo Sidney, went on to finish 33-2 and won a state title. La Mirada (21-8), it turns out, had some pretty good players, starting with the NBA's...

In the final dream sequence of Brian De Palma's 1976 movie "Carrie," the arm of the undead Carrie White emerges from the grave in a climactic act of vengeance against classmate Sue Snell. A similar refusal to die is a characteristic of the stage-musical version of "Carrie," which famously bombed...

Kim Brooks, suspended when a profanity-filled tirade on April 26 became public via an audio recording, will not return as baseball coach or athletic director at La Mirada, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Brooks confirmed to the paper that he had been dropped from both positions. He...

A juggernaut entertainment since its 1985 premiere, “Les Misérables” has undergone many incarnations, including the controversial 25th anniversary production that pitted original director Trevor Nunn against producer Cameron Mackintosh, and the recent film starring Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe.

Kim Brooks, the athletic director and baseball coach at La Mirada, will not be in the dugout for his team's Southern Section Division 2 playoff opener on Thursday while the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District investigates his conduct, according to the Whittier Daily News.

I had never seen anything quite like it, and it grew on me slowly. But I can’t stop thinking about, and humming snippets from, La Mirada Theatre’s revival of “Floyd Collins,” the odd, haunting musical about the Kentucky cave explorer who got himself trapped underground in 1925.